Forum: Non Conformist Records

Hi just wondering if anyone can help, Does anyone know if an ancestor was buried in a Quaker burial ground would they have been a Quaker? It sounds a silly question but the only record of my particular family is that of two burials of two daughters in Codnor Breach in 1704 and 1706, this is a...

I have just looked on the non-conformists site for BMD and spotted a few of my lot, but I need a sub to access the records. Could some kind soul look them up for me. If you need credits for this, then I apologise for asking - don't want someone to use them up for me. Dudfield Benjamin 1783...

I used to know but cannot remember... when an individual is mentioned as a kinsman on a record (in this case a 1675 Quaker marriage, though much more common in wills) what is their relationship to the main person in the record? is it nephew? I just can't quite recall.

The National Archives´ collection of nonconformist birth, marriage and death records from 1567 has now gone on line. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/172.htm?homepage=news Only RG 5 and RG 6 is online so far!

Hello, Could some kind person out there tell me if there is a similar but earlier publication to Who's Who In Methodism 1933. Containing both Ministers and Lay Officers?

Hello everyone! I have been researching my and my husbands ancestors (CLEAR/SARVENT/LAW/FORRESTER) for nearly a year now through a different ancestry website, looking mainly at census forms and the free BMD registers with some success. I found this forum while looking for information about...

HI|wave| Ive noticed on an obituary of my grandads that people from the bethel mission attended his funeral, well ive looked on the net and aparently it was in south africa at this time aswell.Soooo i was wondering , could they have played a part in his coming over here?One of their ministers...

I'm having problems finding the names and locations of nonconformist churches/meeting places in London. My Brown family lived in Portpool Lane, St Andrew, Holborn in the 1850's but seem to have had their children baptised somewhere other than the local parish church. They were of nonconformist...

I shall be visiting my parents on the 20th September and would be happy to do some lookups in these two books while I'm there. 'Who's Who in Methodsism 1933' contains details of ministers and those lay people who were Circuit office holders when the Weslyan, United Methodist & Primitive...

Can anyone help. I'm looking for birth or marriage records of a William Bennet born about 1806 in Sheviock cornwall. I know that he was living there in 1841 as he appears in the census but I can find no baptismal records for any of his children..or wedding records or even death records so I'm...

Hi does anyone have anything on cefn canol chapel near llansilin i know that it is a calvinistic methodists it could be in rhydycroesau ive been trying to find photos of it as my mother went there as a child and my grandfather it would of been in the 1930 but my grandfather would of gone there as a...

My g grandparents, both widowed, were married in a Registry Office in Briton Ferry in 1855. I have always assumed that they were Baptist because one daughter married a Baptist minister and both daughters were pillars of the local Welsh Baptist chapel. Were widow/ers not allowed to marry in chapel?...

Thanks to a certain online subscription site, it is now possible to view the original registers of Cross Street Unitarian Chapel in Manchester, for which I am eternally grateful after struggling with the often illegible MF at Manchester Library. However, yesterday I found an ancestor's burial...

Where would I start looking for Baptist records in Surrey and Poplar and Deptford in the late 1700's and early 1800's? I was emailed a link to the Poplar Chapel...it was Baptist and demolished after WWII. All these years, I have been searching the C of E and now they might be Baptist.

My 2xgt grandparents were both buried in non consecrated ground in Nottingingham general cemetery as was my gt grandmother so I assume they were non conformist. However I am unsure which religion to check for. my 2 x gt grandparents moved around as he was a miner, however from around 1871 onwards...

Does anyone have any background information on the Independent Chapel of worship?

A family story refers to a great uncle who was a lay preacher: apparently he visited the family when my father was a little boy some time in the 1920s (they lived in Blackfriars, SE London), because he was going to preach at a nearby Spurgeon's Tabernacle that day. Would some erudite soul know...

Hi all This is going to sound REALLY dumb. I have an ancestor who, in 1835 was baptised in St John Evangelist in lambeth, Surrey. Were children normally baptised under their mother's religion or did that not matter? It may explain why I have not been able to find any details on the...

I apologise beforehand for the length of this request for assistance; can anyone explain the confused religious beliefs I seem to have uncovered. My 5th great grandfather had 13 children. The first 3 (born between 1761 and 1764 were baptised at the Parish Church in Normanton on Soar around the...